| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立中興大學 === 台灣文學研究所 === 98 === Cross-border Malaysian writer Choong, Yee Voon’s (1969-) rises from the literature circle of Taiwan at the end of 20th century. Her works have a prominent position among contemporary female writers. Her personal background and life trajectory differs from that of her contemporary Taiwanese female writers, whose works wander between the boundary of Malaysia and Taiwan. The interaction of Malaysian impression and her experience in Taiwan allows her narratives to infuse illusory and practical approaches, and to demonstrate multiple layers and dimensions of her complicated and detailed life patterns and feelings.
This study intends to conduct a comprehensive investigation on Choong’s prose. The research scope includes seven of her prose published between 1995 and 2008. This paper is organized into five chapters. The first and last chapters are the introduction and the conclusions, respectively. Chapter 2 observes Choong’s personal background and writing experience and explores its impact on her literary boundary. Chapter 3 focuses on the subject “overlapping performances of life space” in two major dimensions. The first dimension is to trace her memory of her hometown, discussing her construction of her childhood utopia, kinship affection, and pictorial images of her hometown. The second dimension concentrates on her writing on cross-border migration, discussing her search for identities and contemplation and her traveling memories from vagrancy to settlement. The main axis of discourse of the fourth chapter is to discuss the complexity of the interpretation of objects and affection, and the imaginary object-self dialogues. The narratives and derivative interpretation about the body include rumination on illness and the impact of sensual experiences and feelings of internal message on the subjectivity.
Through the investigation of the development of Choong’s prose, this paper finds that her works often include the construction of ideal conception, reconfiguration of memorial fragments, indulgence and association with subjective feelings, the application of physical sensuality, memorial pictures of life, and various sceneries. Although her primitive works express traditional lyrical aesthetic writing styles, her recent works cover different topics and adopt divergent writing styles; her writing styles now demonstrate subversive connotations based on her construction of arcane phantom narratives. As a result, her prose has continuous and seminal meanings among female writers in the classical school.
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